Google will introduce its much-anticipated entry into the voice-activated home device market on Wednesday, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Named Google Home, the device is a virtual agent that answers simple questions and carries out basic tasks. It is to be announced at Google’s annual developers’ conference in Silicon Valley.
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Questions are already arising about privacy, disclosures and the quality of the information being doled out.
— New York Times
The project will compete against Amazon's Echo.
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Someone should give this to a homeless San Franciscan
Now Dumb poorly designed homes can be equipped with smart devices to match the dumb people with smart phones! Yay technology!!!
Tech is moving faster than architecture...it's gonna look like sickly half baked buildings on high tech life support...
We all already have “voice activated devices” in our homes; they’re called “wives”.
Great, now we can be spied on, intruded upon and tracked wherever we are.
So more like wives than they appear! Zing!
Lets see who will win this new tech war!
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